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Feds offer banking rules for legal-pot industry “I don't see banks leaping into the market, given what the memos actually say,” said John Davis, a Seattle pot entrepreneur and director of a local industry group, the Coalition for Cannabis Standards and Ethics. U.S. Rep. Denny Heck, D-Olympia, said … Read more on The Seattle Times

Feds deep-six traditional paper nautical charts The federal government is going into uncharted waters, deep-sixing the giant paper nautical charts that it has been printing for mariners for more than 150 years. By SETH BORENSTEIN. AP Science Writer … Read more on The Seattle Times

Feds cut off two Seattle-based Head Start programs The group's Head Start program has roots in the 1970 Indian takeover of a decommissioned Army fort in what is now Seattle's Discovery Park, and the community that emerged from it. Frank says the program educated Indian children based on their own … Read more on KPLU […]

Seattle officials agreed to an independent monitor and court oversight of the city’s police department as part of an agreement announced Friday with the Justice Department following a damning report that found officers routinely used excessive … Seattle – Bing News

City and federal negotiators were involved in tense talks over the scope of a deal for months, and Justice Department lawyers had threatened to sue the city if a deal was not reached by July 31. “It’s no secret there were a few bumps in the road … Seattle – Bing News

SEATTLE, July 28 (UPI) — Seattle has agreed to federal monitoring of its police department and to the creation of a panel of community representatives, officials said. The settlement between the city and the U.S. Justice Department was … Seattle – Bing News

By CHRIS GRYGIEL Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) – Seattle officials agreed to an independent monitor and court oversight of the city’s police department as part of an agreement announced Friday with the Justice Department following a damning report that … Seattle – Bing News

SEATTLE (AP) – Seattle officials agreed to an independent monitor and court oversight of its police department as part of an agreement announced Friday with the Justice Department following a damning report that found officers routinely used … Seattle – Bing News

The City of Seattle has reached a tentative agreement with the Department of Justice to fix problems inside the Seattle Police Department, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. The source told KING 5 that a team has been working almost … Seattle – Bing News